198 AMATII)^. 



657 a. Euchromia collaris. (Plate X. fig. 124.) 



Euchromia collaris, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 496 (1905). 



cj . Black ; frons white ; tegulae yellow suffused with scarlet ; 

 vertex of head, tegulae, and mesothorax suffused with metallic 

 blue ; pectus and fore coxae with blue patches ; mid and hind 

 coxae white ; abdomen with some scarlet, yellowish and blue on 

 1st segment, metallic blue bands on two next segments and crimson 

 bands on the live terminal segments, the ventral surface crimson 

 except at base and extremity, the two subterminal segments with 

 segmental black lines. Fore wing with some metallic blue at base 

 and a discoidal lunule ; a wedge-shaped hyaline spot in cell, the 

 spots below base of cell and origin of vein 2 conjoined ; elongate 

 spots above veins 6, 4, 3, and a streak below 3 on left side only. 

 Hind wing with hyaline basal patch conjoined below the cell to the 

 patch beyond the cell leaving the veins and a discoidal lunule 

 black. 



Hah. Solomons, Shortland Is., 1 8 type. Exp. 52 millim. 



6(52 rt. Euchromia epa. (Plate X. fig. 25.) 



Euchromia epa, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xv. p. 180 (1908). 



Head and thorax black-brown, the vertex of head and patagia 

 with some metallic blue ; palpi with some white at base ; frons 

 and gulae white ; tegulae and spots on shoulders yellow ; coxae 

 white ; abdomen black with six yellow bands, the bands on 2nd 

 to 4th segments suffused with silvery white, the ventral surface 

 with sublateral yellow spots on basal segment followed by four 

 bands. Fore wing black with some metallic blue at base and on 

 discocellulars ; an oblong hyaline subbasal spot below the cell, 

 an oblong spot in middle of cell with oblique patch below it and 

 elongate postmedial spots above veins 6, 4, 3, and streak below 6. 

 Hind wing black with metallic blue discoidal lunule, hyaline sub- 

 basal spots in and below the cell and oblique postmedial patch 

 between veins 7 and 2. 



Ab. 1. Tegulae black suffused with metallic blue. 



Ab. 2. Abdomen with the bands scarlet at sides and on ventral 

 surface. 



Hah. Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), 5 tf, 3$. Exp. 

 50 millim. 



663 a. Euchromia plagosa. (Plate X. fig. 26.) 



ISnchromia plagosa, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 495 (1905). 



<r> . Black ; frons edged with white ; vertex of head blue ; 

 tegulae orange; patagia pale yellow with opalescent tints and 

 edged With black ; pectus with lateral white patches ; fore coxa' 

 blue; abdomen with the basal segment pale yellow, the 2nd and 

 3rd with lateral orange patches, the 1th and 5th with orange 



